SIMSCRIPT® II.5 v. 3 Release Notes and Archive

Enhancements specific to PC Windows Platform

• New Command-line interface - The SIMSCRIPT II.5 compiler for the PC Windows platform now has a command-line interface. In addition to the model development using Simstudio, models can be also created using the same commands as on SIMSCRIPT II.5 UNIX/Linux platforms: simc, simld, simgld etc. More details on development SIMSCRIPT II.5 models using Command-line interface, you can find in SIMSCRIPT II.5 Users Manual.
• New file-management system - SIMSCRIPT II.5 file management, for the PC platform, was redesigned to allow multiple applications to read from a file that is in process of being written to. Multiple users can access/check output reports of the model during simulation run.
• Output redirection - Output from a model can be redirected to a file a.exe output.txt Improved Debugger - SIMSCRIPT II.5 Symbolic Debugger now has a resizable window that allows for better presentation of debugging information.
• Profiling - is now available on PC SIMSCRIPT II.5 Windows platform

To build bank.exe and bank.map for further profiling use -p compiler switch. To create profiling results in bank.lst, use proftime.bat command:

simc -G -p -o bank.exe *.sim proftime bank

NOTE: don't use application executable file name with extension .exe, such as "proftime bank.exe"

SIMSCRIPT II.5 is distributed on CD-ROM. It is also available for downloading from CACI WEB site. On-line SIMSCRIPT II.5 documentation is included on CD-ROM and on SIMSCRIPT WEB site. It is readable through Adobe Acrobat Reader.